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What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopia
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
Great awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
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What does temperance mean?
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What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
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What did Dorothea Dix do?
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What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
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What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
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Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
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Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete emancipation of slaves?
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Who was the most well known abolitionist?
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What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
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What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
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What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Bought freedom
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
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Where was Sojourner Truth born?
New York
Why did Truth choose her new name?
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What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls
What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s suffrage
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?
Women’s rights
